Figure 1.

Heatmap of global distribution of potyviruses based on the scientific studies from Supplementary Table S1. Potyviruses have a cosmopolitan presence with the highest number of species recorded* in the United States (81), followed by China (63), Australia (62), France (49), New Zealand (45), India (43), and Brazil (41). *Recorded from exhaustive web search. The reporting and discovery of potyvirus species are not equivalent across the globe. Furthermore, species numbers are rapidly increasing with ongoing deep sequencing discovery.